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My last profile picture was feeling a little outdated, so I figured it was time for a new self-portrait: To create this self-portrait I used a mix of recent photos as reference. I sketched and digitally painted the full illustration in Photoshop, finishing with a few paint textures from Texture Mate. After such a long […]

June 30th – July 6th Just a quick update today as I’m still wrapping up from a wonderful weekend of trading at Oz Comic Con (many thanks to everyone for dropping by!). I need to catch up on some Figure Drawing Challenge homework too, so expect more next week. On to the studies: Day 11 […]

June 23rd – 29th Time for more Pencil Kings’ Figure Drawing Challenge 2014 studies! In Week 2 of the challenge, we fleshed out the stickmen figures with more detailed heads, torsos, hands and feet. Here’s the rundown: Day 6 Heads! Added eye sockets, nose and mouth to the front, side and 3/4 view of the head. Also […]

June 9th – 15th In Week 12 I studied arms, drawing from the books – Loomis’ Figure Drawing For All It’s Worth, Vanderpoel’s The Human Figure, and Rubins’ The Human Figure. It also occurred to me that hey, I should be making studies from my Anatomy Tools male figure! He spends too much time just standing around looking pretty, see: So […]

May 26th – June 1st Not too much to say on Week 10 – completed a few anatomy studies on the legs, feet and hands, and sketched people out in the wild. Thinking I’ll focus on drawing hands for Week 11. I still find them really tricky! All the best, x Kristy Kate + + + […]

Want to go straight to the special announcement? Click here. The month of May marks a fairly significant milestone in my art career; it has now been one year since I left the security of my day job as a graphic artist in order to further my art education and pursue a freelance career, full-time. […]